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Apple not sharing their chips extends to Apple keeping their grip on the higher density nodes. I wonder if it's still the case, but for a while Apple was buyin
by makeitdouble 11mo ago
Apple not sharing their chips extends to Apple keeping their grip on the higher density nodes.
I wonder if it's still the case, but for a while Apple was buying the totality of TSMC's capacity for 3nm nodes, leaving the rest of the world with only 4nm+ chips to grab.
- 15155 11mo agoBitmain is quite often first on new nodes, ahead of Apple, even.
- StopDisinfo910 11mo agoYou don’t need to wonder. Top of the lines Snapdragon, Dimensity and Exinos SoC all use 3nm. Amusingly, it’s the second time in two days I have this discussion here and I have noticed that a lot of people, who I think are American and using Apple phones by default, are completely unaware of what the mobile SoC landscape looks like nowadays. Apple lead doesn’t exist anymore as of this generation.
- l11r 11mo agoApple still leads in raw performance. Their M5 is far ahead of basically everything in single-core performance. AFAIK it's because their architecture prioritizes IPC over frequency, and they can spend the entire silicon budget on a very large monolithic chip.